Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
BTATICK SUWOROWI. 
WIUIE MAMMOTH TEN-WEEK STOCK. 
!»2i. n.ii.A. Stock, White Mammoth Ten-Week— Of Inxiirious 
robust growth ; attains in the open ground a height of 3 ft., and produces only 
a single strong spike. 1 ft. iu length, closely covered with very large well- 
formed flowers of the purest white ; valuable for large groups. Orf. and Is. 
per pkt. 
922. H.p. Stellaria Graminea Aurea (Caryop/iy/fe®)— Neater than 
Golden Feather, and, like that, far better from seeds than plants. 3 in. 
3d. per pkt. 
923. H.p. Stenactis Speciosa, syn. Erigeron Speeiosus 
(Composit(e ). — Purple flowers, plants 2 ft. high. If the seed is sown in a 
slight hot-bed in March, it will produce flowering plants the same year. 
3d. per pkt. 
Stlpa— ’Ste Ornamental Grasse.». 
Sunflowers— ire Helianthus. 
926. H.A. Statiee Suworowi— By far the finest of allannual Statices ; 
similar in habit to H. Spicata, but greatly superior to it. Its branching 
flower spikes, of a very bright rose with a crimson shade, appear successively 
from ten to fifteen on each plant, and measure each fully 15 to 18 inches in 
length, and from J to 1 inch in breadth. One plant will last in flower 
more than two months, and if sown in succession from February to April, 
it may be had constantly flowering throughout the Summer and Autumu. 
Gd. per pkt. 
927. H.A. Statiee Spicata (Everlasting) —Forms long spikes of rosy- 
pink flowers ; of easy growth. 3d. per pkt. 
Other Varieties of Statiee can be supplied. 
928. O.p. Streptoearpus (Ge.sneracem'), Hybrids— These are 
remarkable for their abundance of bloom, and the continuous succession 
in which the flowers are produced for about four months in the Summer 
and early Autumn, and also for the long time the individual flowers last 
iu perfection. The plant is a greenhouse perennial, of dwarf, neat 
habit, growing about 9 inches high, with rather long, narrow, arched and 
recurved stemless leaves ; whilst the flowers, which are very graceful in 
form, are trnmpet-shaped, and measure about inches in length. The 
variation of colours in these hybrids is very striking, scarcely two 
plants being exactly the same, and the colours ranp from ]mre white, 
through pale lavender, lavender-bine, lilac-blue, light mauve, purple, 
violet, bright rose, and red to rich rosy purple, with all the intermediate 
tints, and in all the flowers the throat and three lower segments are more 
or lees marked or splashed with long blotches or spots of various shades 
of purple, generally shaded and relieved with white, which greatly 
‘ enhances the effect, and affords a pleasing contrast of colour. If seed is 
sown the end of January and February, the plants come into bloom the 
I following June and July, and continue flowering freely until the end of 
I September and October. Is. per pkt. 
The foregoing varieties of Stock have proved to be the most distinct 
and decorative, and suitable to the different styles of gardening for which 
the Stock is so admirably adapted. All are desirable pot-plants, and are 
greatly prized as cut flowers, both for their diverse colours and fragrance. 
For a continuous succession of bloom, seed should be sown at intervals 
from the beginning of March to the end of May, the first sowing under 
glass, the latter sowings may be made where the plants are intended to bloom 
Sweet Alyssum — See Alyssum Maritimnm. 
Sweet Sultan — See Centanrea Moschata. 
Sweet William — See Diantbus Barbatns. 
924. H.n.P. Statiee Bonduelli (Plumbaginea^) — Light golden- 
coloured everlasting flowers. 1 ft. 6c/. per pkt. 
925. (J.p. Statiee Halfordii (Everlasting)— A superb blue variety; 
nscfnl for the decoration of the greenhouse. Is. per pkt. 
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